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The Role of Women in Improving the Added Value of Dairy Products in El-Behira Governorate

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Agricultural economics

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The research aimed to identify the domestic production and manufacturing of rural women who make dairy products, and the added value which is caused by the female breeders that due to the dairy products process, and this can be achieved through: (1) the economic and social characteristics of rural women and indicators of economic efficiency to maximize their role in improving family income, (2) Estimating added value of dairy products. (3) The obstacles facing rural women who own dairy projects, proposals for overcoming these obstacles and the reasons which prevent non-holding rural women from establishing these projects, selected sample sized of 75 project owner, based on a field questionnaire during 2019. The results showed that: - Amount 80% of the total number of female in study participate in improving the level of income, while 20% of non-working female in study.  - The most important dairy products are cottage cheese, the ghee industry, yoghurt, butter, cream. - The highest net return on the pound invested for ghee, butter are 2.27, 2.10 respectively. - Results also showed that the highest added value of making 1 kg and achieved the highest profit of milk was achieved by the ghee industry, butter, yoghurt and cream, cottage cheese, which as a result of making of milk respectively. - According to Chi square (( , The most important problems  which  rural women who have small projects suffered from high interest rates on loans granted, lack of knowledge of the markets through which products can be marketed, low price of selling the product from the project, difficulty in obtaining the production requirements necessary to operate the project, multiple product prices, high Wages of auxiliary leased labor, delayed marketing of the product, which causes damage, high prices for transportation and their unavailability, as 73.3%, 70.7%, 60%, 74.4%, 62.7%, 88%, 81.3 suffer % For each problem, respectively . These results and recommendations of this study should be very important to policymakers and non-governmental organization.  

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10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2020.126348

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The role of rural women in improving the added value of dairy products in Beheira Governorate

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Doaa I.

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Hashem

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Agricultural Economics Research Institute - Agricultural Research Center

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Elham Shaaban A.

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Bargal

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Agricultural Economics Research Institute - Agricultural Research Center

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41

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July-September

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16340

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2020-09-01

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2020-08-25

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2020-09-30

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241

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254

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1110-0176

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2536-9784

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Alexandria Science Exchange Journal

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The Role of Women in Improving the Added Value of Dairy Products in El-Behira Governorate

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22 Jan 2023